Saturday’s lopsided championship games don’t appear to have affected the Kansas University football team’s postseason direction.
KU officials will meet with the media at 2:30 p.m. today to discuss its bowl plans, which likely will include a trip to Texas for the Fort Worth Bowl.
The opponent is shaping up to be Houston, which finished the regular season 6-5. Tulsa won the Conference USA championship, 44-27, over Central Florida to clinch a berth in the Liberty Bowl. Texas-El Paso accepted an invitation to the GMAC Bowl soon after.
Fort Worth Bowl executive director Tom Starr has said the C-USA representative to his bowl was expected to be either Houston, UTEP or Tulsa. Houston is the only one of the three not to accept an invitation as of Saturday night.
KU athletic director Lew Perkins said Saturday he had heard nothing new in the hours following Texas’ 70-3 flogging of Colorado in the Big 12 Conference championship game, leading one to believe that Kansas (6-5) is headed where it was expected to go all along — Fort Worth.
The Champs Sports Bowl, which played host to Kansas in 2003, is expected to take the Buffaloes despite their less-than-stellar showing in the Big 12 title game. Missouri is projected to be heading to the Independence Bowl and Iowa State to the Houston Bowl.
The Fort Worth Bowl is slated for a 7 p.m. kickoff Dec. 23 from Amon G. Carter Stadium on the TCU campus. It will be televised by ESPN (Sunflower Broadband Channel 33).
